3rd Annual RHS Festival

Riverdale High School is hosting the 3RD ANNUAL week-long celebration of reading and literacy March 14th-18th, 2016. During Literacy Week students are enjoying dress-up days, author book talks, and creative, multimodal projects in various classes. The Riverdale Literacy Festival takes place THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 18th when students participate in a book signing event with eight young-adult authors. Other festivities include games, music, and food. These events help reinvigorate our students’ enthusiasm for reading by providing them with high-interest books. Contact us to learn more about how you can participate in this year's Riverdale Literacy Festival -- and help us put books in the hands of our students!

Riverdale High School students also participated in Florida's annual Literacy Week Million Minute Marathon in January. The goal is for Florida students to collectively read over one million minutes during two days in that week. RHS students proudly read 65,957 minutes for five-day week during the 2015 Literacy Week. That was an average of 13,191 minutes per day. We did EVEN BETTER this year (click the total link below)! Let's continue to support our students' literacy efforts as our community can still donate books at the school. Thank YOU for supporting literacy!

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Lynne Matson

Nil

On the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape?or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever. Raiders have grown bolder, supplies are dwindling, and non-human inhabitants have taken a turn toward the deadly. New arrivals cause rifts within the City, putting the Search system at risk, and calling everything Rives knows into question. Desperate for answers, he teams up with the only other person searching for them: Skye, a new arrival with a mysterious past of her own. Soon the duo find themselves locked in a desperate race to save all the residents of Nil?and possibly destroy the island forever. But at what cost? And who will pay the price?

Jamie Ayers

18 Thoughts

Olga Gay Worontzoff left the Underworld for her final year of high school anxious for things to return to normal, but fate has other plans. The new hottie at school reads her thoughts but nobody else's. Her best friend wakes up from his coma acting like a completely different person. Caught in a world that's a mix of familiar and supernatural, she must confront what she will-or won't-do to bring him back and stare down her own perceived inadequacies to face a couple of tenacious demons, figurative and literal. Everything she thought she knew about reality will change as she walks the line between past and present, fear and faith, love and loyalty. And by the end of a heartbreaking year, she might be forced to realize "normal" in the conventional sense of the word is the one thing she may never achieve.

Krystal Wade

Asleep

"To cure fear, you must use fear." Rose Briar claims no responsibility for the act that led to her imprisonment in an asylum. She wants to escape, until terrifying nightmares make her question her sanity and reach out to her doctor. He’s understanding and caring in ways her parents never have been, but as her walls tumble down and Rose admits fault, a fellow patient warns her to stop the medications. Phillip believes the doctor is evil and they’ll never make it out of the facility alive. Trusting him might be just the thing to save her. Or it might prove the asylum is exactly where she needs to be.

Melissa Landers

Starflight

Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but it's not like the law has ever been on her side. Still, off-world travel doesn't come cheap; Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm. She just wishes it could have been to anyone besides Doran Spaulding, the rich, pretty-boy quarterback who made her life miserable in school. The tables suddenly turn when Doran is framed for conspiracy on Earth, and Solara cons him into playing the role of her servant on board the Banshee, a ship manned by an eccentric crew with their own secrets. Given the price on both Doran and Solara's heads, it may just be the safest place in the universe. It's been a long time since Solara has believed in anyone, and Doran is the last person she expected to trust. But when the Banshee's dangerous enemies catch up with them, Solara and Doran must come together to protect the ship that has become their home-and the eccentric crew that feels like family.

Liz Coley

Unleashed

When sixteen-year old Torrance Olivia Maddox, self-confessed news junkie, figures out that the mysterious and deadly New Flu is being spread by dogs, she has one question—if the danger is that obvious to her, why hasn’t the government revealed the truth and taken action? Her search for the answer will take her farther than she ever imagined. But then again, she never imagined that man’s best friend could become public enemy number one, that men in black might show up in her cozy suburban neighborhood, that she’d spend her sixteenth birthday as a teenaged runaway, and that her effort to save one dog would become a mission to save them all.

Kyle Prue

The Sparks

Could you forgive your sworn enemy if it meant saving your family, legacy and beloved city from the hands of an evil power? The Vapros, the Taurlum, and the Celerius: three dynasties bound by an ancient promise, and given superhuman abilities to protect the city of Altryon from the dangerous world beyond its walls. Centuries of fighting, however, have turned the families against each other. A powerful emperor now rules and each family has suffered heavy casualties in the feud. Sixteen-year-old Neil Vapros desperately wants to become an assassin in order to impress his overly critical father. Despite a failed mission, Neil learns that a new sinister threat has awakened. This mysterious new power will shatter the established order and threaten not only the very lives of these powerful families, but also the once great city of Altryon.

Lisa Colozza Cocca

Providence

After hopping a freight train, Becky finds a newborn baby in the corner of the car. She is fleeing the harsh responsibilities of her hardscrabble South Carolina farm life, which seems to hold no future for her. And yet, as the oldest of 10, Becky’s well-honed maternal instincts kick in, and she selflessly takes on the ominous responsibility of caring for Baby Girl. The railroad tracks take them to Watson’s Grove, and Becky embarks on a new beginning, landing into the soft and trusting world of Rosie and her resale shop, Secondhand Rose. Becky adeptly makes herself indispensable with her artistic handiwork, while darling Baby Girl, aka Georgia Rose, warms every heart in town. Rosie, Becky, and Georgia Rose create a family built of mutual need, love, and kindness in this gentle tale of life in nostalgic small-town America. In her debut novel, Cocca portrays a community of sympathetic characters in Watson’s Grove, Georgia, who believe in the promise of life’s second chances.

Erica Cameron

Deadly Sweet Lies

Nadette Lawson knows when you’re lying. Every night for the past two years, the Balasura have visited her dreams, enticing her to enter their world. And every night she’s seen through their lies. Now, they’re tired of playing in the shadows and they begin to stalk her in the waking world. It’s no longer just an invitation; if Nadette doesn’t join them, they’ll take her family. Forever. She needs help, and the haven she’s seeking may be just out of reach. Julian Teagan is a master of deception. To survive, he has to convince the world his mother isn’t useless, that everything’s fine, otherwise he’ll lose what little he has left in this life. He knows the lying won’t be enough to keep him and his mother in the shadows, but it’s all he knows. The only light of truth is Orane, a Balasura who sees past Julian’s facade and challenges him to face the darkness. Then Orane is killed, and Julian learns his mentor was far from innocent. The Balasura have hunted children like him for centuries, and their next target, Nadette is his one chance at finally being a part of something real. If Julian can just convince her to trust him…

Maria Andreu

...Side of Empty

As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish hair and pale skin. But M.T. hides two facts to the contrary: her full name of Monserrat Thalia and her status as an undocumented immigrant. With senior year of high school kicking into full swing, M.T. sees her hopes for a “normal” future unraveling. And it will take discovering a sense of trust in herself and others for M.T. to stake a claim in the life that she wants.

Peter Adam Salomon

...Broken Angels

Richard Harrison was the last person to see his friend Melanie alive. She vanished when they were six, and while the police never found her, a part of her remained?a living shadow that became Richard’s closest friend. For ten years, Richard has never questioned the shadow that keeps him company... until a new girl moves to town, claiming to be Melanie. All Those Broken Angels is a story of buried bones and shadowy secrets and the freedom that can only come from a journey through darkness.